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LENA

Volume 2 · 47 words · 1771 Edition

a great river of Siberia running north from N. lat. 55° to 72°.

LENÆA, in antiquity, a festival of Bacchus, named Lenæus from a vine-pres. Besides the usual ceremonies at feasts sacred to this god, it was remarkable for poetical contentions, and tragedies acted at this time.